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March 10, 2010 6:39 PM

Kiet Callies Episode 901 of our geocaching streak, Part 1: http://flic.kr/p/7JWhvE #geocaching #starwars

March 10, 2010 4:38 PM

@ShanaAnderson Have Jared eat less and exercise more. He'll lose those hours in no time. Kiet Callies

March 10, 2010 4:22 PM

Kiet Callies found the geocache Lower River Road #3 http://coord.info/GC23H32

March 9, 2010 11:36 PM

Episode 900 of our geocaching streak, Part 5: http://flic.kr/p/7JGnti #geocaching #starwars Kiet Callies

March 9, 2010 11:28 PM

Kiet Callies Episode 900 of our geocaching streak, Part 4: http://flic.kr/p/7JLf57 #geocaching #starwars

March 9, 2010 11:18 PM

Episode 900 of our geocaching streak, Part 3: http://flic.kr/p/7JLbeq #geocaching #starwars Kiet Callies

March 9, 2010 10:59 PM

Kiet Callies Episode 900 of our geocaching streak, Part 2: http://flic.kr/p/7JG85R #geocaching #starwars

March 9, 2010 7:53 PM

Episode 900 of our geocaching streak, Part 1: http://flic.kr/p/7JJf15 #geocaching #starwars Kiet Callies

March 9, 2010 6:12 PM

Kiet Callies found the geocache Padmé Amidala http://coord.info/GC2284N

March 9, 2010 11:54 AM

Finally at Work (@ Clark County Amphitheater) http://4sq.com/bwYBoV Kiet Callies

March 9, 2010 9:34 AM

Kiet Callies OK, bored last night, so I decided to do some research on the latest geek trend - Foursquare. I sometimes have too much time on my hands.

March 9, 2010 9:23 AM

I just unlocked the "Newbie" badge on @foursquare! Kiet Callies

March 9, 2010 9:23 AM

Kiet Callies Daily coffee stop (@ Lava Java)

March 8, 2010 8:33 PM

Episode 899 of our geocaching streak, Part 3: http://flic.kr/p/7JrHji #geocaching #starwars Kiet Callies

March 8, 2010 8:21 PM

Kiet Callies Episode 899 of our geocaching streak, Part 2: http://flic.kr/p/7JvvXq #geocaching #starwars

November 9, 2009 9:59 AM

Jill Callies I tried to feed McKenzie at Fred Meyer with little or no impact. Difficult and the Author was correct deli people get annoyed!

November 7, 2009 10:29 AM

Click & Clack use the phrase "I fear that....." Kiet laughs at me when I use that phrase. Ha---I knew I wasn't the only one!!!! Jill Callies

October 4, 2009 8:36 AM

Jill Callies While I travel down a path of change, my best friend is truly an inspiration as he works and succeeds at his own personal challenges. :)

October 3, 2009 12:35 PM

I overdosed on MucinexDM. Jill Callies

October 3, 2009 12:32 PM

Jill Callies Izzy's spelled backwards is S'yzzi.

September 30, 2009 6:39 PM

I just did 30 minutes on the elliptical. Yeah for me! Jill Callies

August 26, 2009 8:23 PM

Jill Callies I feel alone.

August 22, 2009 6:55 PM

McKenzie & I are having dinner together at Applebees. McKenzie said to the waitress....My Daddy on vacation and he misses me. Jill Callies

June 10, 2009 9:30 AM

Jill Callies A daycare bus ran a red light narrowly avoiding causing a multicar crash. The bus was full!!

June 10, 2009 9:28 AM

Today I understand why my Dad chose to drive me to and from school until I drove myself. Jill Callies

June 1, 2009 5:43 PM

Jill Callies McKenzie thinks that she can do what her Daddy does. Sometimes not so much fun for Mom.

May 30, 2009 9:32 PM

Maker Faire is a dream. I wish it would be longer. My head is spinning with ideas and amazement at all the intelligent and talented people. Jill Callies

May 24, 2009 9:46 PM

Jill Callies I just tucked Koda in for the night. With a kiss and a hug I gently scolded him and told him to never again scare me the way he did today.

May 23, 2009 3:42 PM

Kiet just had me taste his iced coffee....still don't like coffee - ick! Jill Callies

May 23, 2009 1:42 PM

Jill Callies I just got a score of 490 playing Yahtzee!! Whoo Hooo!!!!!!!!!!

January 23, 2010 2:41 PM

McKenzie Callies I am having fun at classmate Donnie's birthday party.

November 18, 2009 9:54 AM

At school, my teachers hung paper on the underside of a table to draw on while lying on our backs, just like Michaelangelo. McKenzie Callies

November 11, 2009 9:46 AM

McKenzie Callies The tube in my left ears is clogged and working its way out.

August 1, 2009 11:50 AM

I now have my own iTunes account and $15.00 burning in my account. McKenzie Callies

July 6, 2009 6:27 PM

McKenzie Callies I love my Daddy and together we make a great team!!

June 21, 2009 9:30 PM

Today is Fathers Day and Mommy, Daddy & I got to spend the morning with Grandpa, Kimmy & Lilien. It was a great day and I love my Daddy!!!! McKenzie Callies

June 13, 2009 3:01 PM

McKenzie Callies While #geocaching with papa, we saw a whole bunch of bumble bees. ♬ I'm bringing home a baby bumble bee… ♫

June 13, 2009 10:28 AM

There are times when I have to pull my father to the side at the Farmers Market and say "let's listen" to the musicians. McKenzie Callies

June 3, 2009 8:33 AM

McKenzie Callies I love growing my own peas and eating them.

May 30, 2009 9:40 PM

Things I didn't like at Maker Faire 2009..Daddy flying on the thing with the wings!!!!! Being too little to try the cool rides. Next year? McKenzie Callies

May 30, 2009 9:35 PM

McKenzie Callies Things I really liked at Maker Faire 2009....The Muffin Mobiles. The Hula Hoops. The Dying. The Robots. The Lego mobile and much more.....

May 22, 2009 7:10 PM

I had lots of fun playing at US Grant park today with Mommy & Daddy! Swinging, teetering, climbing and sliding OH BOY! McKenzie Callies

May 17, 2009 10:09 AM

McKenzie Callies Daddy made me Map for my Backpack. http://twitgoo.com/4842

May 13, 2009 8:49 PM

I like asparagus. http://twitgoo.com/37cy McKenzie Callies

May 13, 2009 9:54 AM

McKenzie Callies I say, "Say Backpack," and Daddy says, "Knapsack." It makes me laugh when he does this.

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While surfing the web, I came across this interesting mashup, aptly called the Google Maps of time-based information. I have created a timeline of our lives and the many threads that run through it.

  • The top band is scaled by the day and shows little snippets of our lives.
  • The small band below that still displays those life snippets but is scaled by the year.

Navigation through our timeline is easy. Click and hold the mouse cursor over any of the timebands and move the cursor left or right to pan through the timeline, or double click on any spot on the timeline and the timeline will automatically pan to that location. Each timeband is synchronizes with the other. At the top of the timeline are milestone dates. Clicking on those will move you to that moment on our timeline.

Above our timeline, you can enter a date and jump to that date on the timeline, and you can also go back to today's date.

Below our timeline are some search tools. The first is a filter tool that will display only those moments in time that match the text you type in. The other is a highlight tool that will hightlight those moments in time in one of the four colors you choose that match the text you type in.

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For my 35th birthday, Miranda and Kelsey Lukens sent me a bag of toys for trade items. In return, I decided to give them back to them as travel bugs. Check on their progress by clicking on images below:

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I created my own geocaching mapping mash-up. I transformed all of our geocaching finds into a georss feed and then overlaid the feed onto on Yahoo! Maps. You have all the interactivity of Yahoo! Maps - zooming, panning and switching map types. Each find is easily marked with an icon which also tells you what kind of cache that find was: traditional, multi, earth, virtual or webcam. When you click on a particular cache, it opens up an informational windows that displays when we found the cache, a link to that cache on geocaching.com and a related picture of our find.

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The Streak

It started on September 22, 2007, and every day since, we have found at least one geocache. Now this streak may seem trivial and mundane, hardly a triumph, but have you ever tried to do a conscious activity consistently for such a long time?

I can’t, and that is why I find this streak so amazing.

It’s also not just about the geocaching. A consequence of our streak has also been at least a photo a day, along with a sentence or two a day in our daily Twitter dispatches.

Despite Jill’s initial desire to put an end of the streak after a year, when the streak was in jeopardy, she became upset at the idea of its demise, so we continue on.

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March 7, 2010 7:02 PM

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Fixing McKenzie's Cracked iPhone Screen

March 4, 2010 9:36 PM

Last Saturday, I dropped McKenzie’s iPhone on the garage floor, cracking the screen, and screamed a torrent of obscenities. However, all was not lost. The touchscreen LCD still worked. The damage was just cosmetic.

A Google search lead me back to ifixit.com, which posted a tutorial on how to replace an iPhone screen and sold a replacement kit. I didn’t give it a second thought when I ordered it.

Well, today waiting on my doorstep when I got home was my replacement kit, and an hour later, McKenzie’s iPhone was fixed.

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February 28, 2010 7:02 PM

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Keep This Place Weird

February 22, 2010 4:59 PM

In my travels throughout my life, I noticed that I have an affinity for places that proudly boast civic slogans of Keep [this city] Weird. When I attended college, Madison was filled with bumper stickers proclaiming that its citizens should Keep Madison Weird. When moved to the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area, I saw the same bumper stickers, but instead inciting its denizens to Keep Portland Weird. Now I have found a southern city that howls the same battle cry, Austin. Now I just need to figure out more space on my bumper…

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February 21, 2010 7:02 PM

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OK, OK…I know how sacchariny sweet this is, but it so damn cute.

February 20, 2010 6:07 AM



OK, OK…I know how sacchariny sweet this is, but it so damn cute.

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An Open Letter to My Daughter

February 6, 2010 8:44 PM

Dear McKenzie,

The new year has come, and yet it is just now for the first time in this new year, this new decade, that I am making the time to fulfill my promise to you. So many things have been passing in and out of my mind since my last letter, and it is hard to nail them down at their particular moments and offer them up as pearls of wisdom for you.

Most recently, I have just finished the book, The Science of Fear, which helped keep my cynicism, worries and fears in perspective. When all looks wrong with the world, I am reminded by the fact that despite the challenges we now face that we are better off than in the past, that we have and will continue to progress. This is saying much about your father who could easily become a grumpy, old and bitter man, who recounts a glorious golden past age.

McKenzie, please don’t let me become that guy. Remind me that the past was filled with disease, starvation, menial labor and violence. But, most of all, remember and learn from those past mistakes and improve upon those past achievements.

Another thing that has been weighing heavy on my mind is feedback. Somewhere down the line, my feedback loop became broken, leaving me detached from those who were once important to me earlier in my life. Occasionally, there are twinges of regret and lame attempts to reconnect; however, they seem to lead nowhere.

I send out signal out into the darkness beyond my immediate source of light – you and your mother – and hear nothing back. Eventually I just turn off the signal all together. I don’t want that to happen to us. More importantly, I don’t want you to follow in my footsteps as hone it as the sharpest weapon in your defense mechanism arsenal.

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